Kara Walker

I went to see Kara Walker's new work at Sikkema Jenkins & Co on 530West 22nd Street. She uses 19th century cut out silhouettes sometimes placed directly onto a wall as a tableau. This new work was an annimation based on the history of slave trade in America. The work is complex as it uses a combination of steriotypical imagery, invented forms and explicit sexual references. It at once playful and painful,critical and aesthetic. Extraordinary work.